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Blog entries posted during 2007

Dec
05

EPiServer: Using the new Unified File System

Posted by: Fredrik Haglund

I hope you find my research on the new EPiServer CMS Unified File System useful. Here are some example code to get you going. The most tricky part is to manually create a page folder if it does not exsist Getting a handle to an existing... [Read full article]

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Dec
04

EPiServer Globalization and Dynamic Properties

Posted by: Fredrik Haglund

I had a tricky support case today related to Globalization and Dynamic Properties. I will try to share what I found in the end of this blog post. Background It is a common problem that you start an EPiServer project without thinking of Globalization... [Read full article]

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Dec
03

Protecting you e-mail address with reCaptcha

Posted by: Fredrik Haglund

It is well know that once an e-mail address have been published on a home page it will not take a long time before it is flooded with spam. The usual sollution to this is to to either use a feedback form (that do not use the mail address in clear... [Read full article]

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Nov
28

Profile Data in EPiServer

Posted by: Fredrik Haglund

To store settings for the current user, use the built-in Profile support in ASP. NET. EPiServer is using this for its own need to store information on a per user basis. (The built-in values EPiServer needs are accessible through the class... [Read full article]

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Nov
27

Generation of designer file failed

Posted by: Fredrik Haglund

The error message “Generation of designer file failed: Unknown server tag ‘EPiServer:Property’” in Visual Studio can really drive me mad. Today it happened again. I noticed that I could not recompile my application because the new textbox I added... [Read full article]

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Nov
09

About Entity Framework and NPersist

Posted by: Fredrik Haglund

I read Mats Hellander’s post EF needs AOP today and I can only agree. We have used the NPersist framework to provide Object-Relational Mapping in several projects and I really like the clean domain objects we can use. NPersist does not require that... [Read full article]

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Nov
03

Properties with Special Functionality in EPiServer

Posted by: Fredrik Haglund

In addition to the build-in properties on EPiServer pages there are some additional user defined properties that have a special function from EPiServers point of view. As a beginner to EPiServer it is easy to miss this so after teaching new... [Read full article]

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Oct
23

Things noticed last week

Posted by: Fredrik Haglund

Import/Export EPiServer CMS (5.1.422) has some issues with Export and Import I had to work around. If you notice that your XForms does not import as they should the only way to recover those pages is to go into the database and clear the guid in the... [Read full article]

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Sep
28

Can’t find provider capability information for provider [XYZ]

Posted by: Fredrik Haglund

I noticed that there is a problem with using ASP. NET membership providers in EPiServer CMS (5.1.422). When going to edit mode you get the following exception: [EPiServerException: Can't find provider capability information for provider... [Read full article]

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Sep
27

The mysterious problem with WebResource.axd

Posted by: Fredrik Haglund

I have tried to figure out why a customer get a strange error message on their ASP. NET web site that stops the whole site from working until you restart the whole IIS. The exception “The WebResource. axd handler must be registered in the... [Read full article]

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